What I did
In Midjourney, I made a dozen attempts at getting the style and tone I was looking for. I ended up with something very different from my first goal (I was initially going for more of a Dilbert style). I pivoted through several different styles, including one inspired by The Simpsons. I almost went forward with this one.
Without specifying the people in a work environment, I kept getting sci-fi or random environments. If I specified an office setting, it tended to go too hard on the “office” part of it.
Here’s the prompt I used to arrive at the final image (below):
a comic about workers talking to their boss, long panels --niji 5 --s 250 --ar 16:9
Of course, I needed to clean it up a bit and add my own words, but that was a pretty low lift in Figma. Here’s the final result:
Next to figuring out how to coax the right images out of Midjourney, the most difficult part was coming up with something creative for the dialog. I had some ideas going in, but none of them fit with the panels that were being given to me. The one I decided to use spoke to me, and I then crafted the conversation afterwards.